Missing Aurora-area teen found

October 12, 2009

An East Aurora High School student missing since Friday turned up at a relative's home in Aurora this afternoon, police said.

Police believe Crystal Catherine Moore, 16, who was last seen that night outside the school as she left an after-school program, ran away from home, and they are still investigating where she was in recent days, said Lt. Pat Gengler, of the Kane County sheriff's office.

The relatives notified the teen's mother at about 3:30 p.m. that she had turned up there, Gengler said.

Moore's mother, Crystal Starr Moore, said this morning that a friend of her daughter told her that on Friday night she saw the missing teen walking away from school in the opposite direction of her home with a man.